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sticks and bones. ([personal profile] sticksandbonesmods) wrote in [community profile] outofsticks2023-12-29 11:40 am
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JANUARY PLOTTING: THE COLD NEVER BOTHERED ME ANYWAY

SETTING UPDATES
  • Wolfie remembered to update the frickin map and locations page before this plotting post went out, give it up for Wolfie overcoming her executive dysfunction finally🎉🎉🎉
  • The fog wall is starting to roll back in, so no more free forest vacations. While it isn’t back to fully covering most of the forest, most of it will be covered back up by the end of the month. The Golden Glasses can still be used to find the “true paths” through any fogged areas.
  • On that note, the Forest is also waking back up, which means no more sleepy monsters in the woods. The monsters are awake and they want to kill you.
  • Sesa & Elsword know the path to the cliff overlooking the ocean. You cannot go to the beach yet, but if you want to look at the ocean over a cliff, ask them to take you there.
  • It continues to snow, but the temperatures are no longer sub-zero most nights, and instead it feels like a regular winter again.
  • The river is now unfrozen, so Vash can get his pants wet as he walks back and forth to his house. Good luck buddy.
  • Alongside that, the river is now full of fish and the temporary meat famine has ended. There are many fish that shouldn’t be in a freshwater river, such is the nature of the Grove. Reminder that the river can be populated with fish from player canons if you’d like. Please give us your weird fish.
  • Wolfwood and Mizuki discovered Renard! He is a tree-man. He can be saved if the playerbase would like this to happen; this will tie into the greater plotline of players discovering how to cure the forest corruption.
  • Speaking of the corruption conundrum, Mizuki ate the moon shard. The sun shard is still in Zahliya’s possession. The rest of the shards… unknown, good luck, have fun finding them!
  • Animals will start to reappear in the Grove. They will be… mutated and feral. Biblically accurate deer and carnivore bunnies and the sort. This is probably fine.
PLOT UPDATES
  • It is Large Game Month. For those that weren’t here with us for the Volcano Event that keeps being ominously referenced by us old people, “Large Games” are semi-regular events that last for a single in-game day where the goal is typically to survive whatever silly shenanigans the mod team stole from a movie or something for a day. You will see exactly what movie we robbed for this one shortly.
  • Large Games make death very, very possible, but importantly they do not send you to the Garden, our death spot where you must give up something to return to life, and you will respawn the morning after you died terribly. This is your opportunity to kill and be killed without repercussion, have fun, go wild.
  • The Grove-wide reward for surviving this game will be that each player character receives a single-use charm that can undo any negative outcomes going forward. It cannot be used to undo harm that was already done (i.e. Elsword’s corruption), but say one of y’all hecks up and gets an NPC killed — the charm could possibly undo that outcome. Do not godmod with these… we doubt we have to say this. Always ask another player for their OOC consent before you unbreak their bones for them.
  • In addition to the Game, this month, small pocket mirrors will begin showing up around player characters, starting within their nightstands and almost seeming to follow them around by appearing on nearby surfaces (desks, walls, the floor, in the coffee machine, go wild). Looking into these mirrors will reveal your “worst” traits about yourself in a reflection that looks just like you. Anybody can look into your mirror and see your “worst self”. You can break the mirrors to stop them from following you and nothing will happen, until the Game takes place that is.
Anyway, here’s the Game:
  • One night, everyone will go to sleep (and if you can’t or don’t sleep, you will simply close your eyes the moment before everyone gets transported) and when they next open their eyes, they’ll be laying on the floor of a giant ice castle. Yes, you will have your gear with you. Yes, coats can be included if you want. Or you can freeze to death, we’re not your parents.
  • The castle will be able to be roamed freely. Unfortunately, the furniture is also made of ice, so there’s no where comfortable to sit down. You will also eventually be chased by a frozen legion of knights the entire time, all hell-bent on killing you. They cannot talk and they will not entertain conversation, they will simply try to stab you with lances/spears/other sharp objects. They can be killed, but more will eventually take their place. If they land a killing blow on you, you’ll immediately freeze solid and shatter into shards.
  • Those of you who decided to break your mirrors will also find that you get colder, both physically and emotionally, as time goes on. Eventually, you’ll start to turn to a statue of ice. Don’t worry, though: The cure is true love, whatever that means. This can range from a genuine compliment to being kissed on the mouth to being given a hug from someone you really needed a hug from.
  • If you survive until the morning, the castle will start to melt around you, and you’ll be transported back to your room/preferred area of sleeping. Those who died will wake up a bit afterwards, but they will feel an inner chill for about a week.
  • hbomberguy is going to shut down our game for plagiarism—
OOC UPDATES
  • Happy 2024 what the fuck happened in 2023??
  • We said this in the discord but are putting it on paper: The cast limit cap has been removed, and we allow people to play up to 4 characters now. Player cap (25) remains the same.
  • Thank you for participating in our silly little game <3
Please use the following form for plotting.

Character:
Status: Who is your character? What did they get up to last month and how is it impacting this month? Did they discover something? Are they harboring a clue? HMM
Seeking: Any CR or plot thread you want to kickstart!
Not Seeking: Anything you'd like to avoid.
Anything Else: A permissions post, opt-in for a character-specific power or whatever else.
Meme: you know you have one.

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SilverAsh | Arknights

[personal profile] diplomaticimmewnity 2023-12-29 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Character: Enciodes "SilverAsh" Silverash

Wolfie has informed me that his last name is with a lowercase a and his op name is with the uppercase A, why is he like this
Status:
So, Enciodes JUST got here, but I actually have a toooooon of plans for him. He is liable to making an announcement either by way of the notebook, by just gathering who he can into the inn lobby to make that a public announcement, or both. His announcement is that he intends to install a government. I am not kidding, unfortunately—

FORTUNATELY, he isn't going to word it like that, and he does have genuinely good intentions about it!! He's a good boy, okay— ehem. Pulls out my list,
  • He is going to establish a more apparent/reliable/organize collective of guards/knights/whatever you would like to call them for the Grove. He intends to just have a sign up sheet for this — no interviews or anything like that. It would literally just to be to establish things like a patrolling shift, first responders to Grove antics. He's going to also be getting stuff from Ydalir so these "guards" can have an alarm that goes off if shit's going down.
  • With that in mind, he will also be making a census for the Grove's residents, and ask that you put your name and skills/talent in the notebook here in the future. This is both so that the Grove knows who to go to first for certain things (i.e. Doctor stuff for Add, or weapon stuff for Sesa, or etc. etc.), as well as being able to tell if someone is missing from the Grove.
  • He wants a sheet for people to sign if they're going out into the Grove, intended location they're trying to explore, and who all is going, with the intent being a search party can go out and look for them if they're not back in a reasonable amount of time. This part, obviously, can be handwaved, but I thought it worth mentioning here!
  • He wants to establish a sort of clean up crew so they can have people help when buildings pop up and are worse for wear. Having people handy w carpentry would be nice too so they can be fixed, but SilverAsh will volunteer for this himself if nothing else. He's going to start this with the School first, and be working with Mizuki (no I won't roleplay this out you cannot MAKE me commit the cardinal sin—) to cleaning up the burnt town at the end of this month/start of next month.
  • He wants a transcriber for town halls so there's someone writing information down as it comes up in the netbook a la what Irene did last time.
  • When he gets enough threads, I was considering him asking for a town hall of some kind, but I genuinely think he would consider the lobby to be good enough considering it's rarely used as a real lobby anyway so I think he's going to ask for an archive and just Make paperwork for him to do-

Seeking: Since he just got here, I would like for him to meet everyone and attempt to make friends. Enciodes is a bit serious, but not unkind! He's actually very personable and social, and he uses big words that makes me keep thesaurus.com open at all times—

For the event SPECIFICALLY, he will… prrrrooobably very instantly break his mirror, lmao. Not even because he's mad at his worst traits or anything, he would just see this as an attempt at the forest mocking him and just be like "oh yeah? How's this then, bitch—"
He may also just ignore it entirely? He figures that if he just flips it over everytime, no one's gonna be a dickhead and go peeping—
His mirror would probably just show a very, very cowardly SilverAsh. Since he super believes that's what he is :(
I dunno for sure, though, and I'll probably be pestering Wolfie about this, specifically, since Gnosis is gonna be his only CR for this ✌️

He will want to protect people within the castle so you know!! Come huddled behind SilverDad for Crimes.
Not Seeking: He is liable to flirt with people because he is a very rizzy cat, but he is also happily married, so uh, I'm not actively looking for new romantic CR
Anything Else: He's a new muse for me so my voice isn't quite down yet, pls be gentle w me.
Meme:
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[personal profile] succiduous 2023-12-29 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Gnosis as SilverAsh takes over everything politely: I love you sooooo much (twirling his headfeathers)

Anyway he should break his mirror so Gnosis can kiss him im js, it would be good if someone who Wasn't gnosis froze solid for once

Otherwise you know Elsword (+ Zahliya) will sign up for town guard, Gnosis will want to be the person who records things (he'll probably ask Caoimhe too), he wants to help. My blorbos want to helps. ...well Nai doesn't but Nai doesn't count.
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[personal profile] mooninthewater 2023-12-29 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I FEEL LIKE WRT THESE TWO THEY'RE GONNA BE THE ONES TO REVEAL THAT "OH KISSING? LOVE? HUSBANDS??? ARE THE ANSWER" BECAUSE GNOSIS ISN'T EVEN GONNA REALIZE THERES A CURE YET AND JUST SMOOCH HIM,

I love them anyway

it's fine he's not gonna force anyone or judge anyone who doesn't want to help, it's just going to be there "to streamline things" (so he can be in charge)
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[personal profile] succiduous 2023-12-29 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
gnosis is giving him a fucking goodbye kiss or whatever and he's fixed and everyone collectively goes "ohhhhhhhhhhhhh". in the background, passenger shoves his whole fucking tongue down sesa's throat and then acts like that was not an act of his fucked-up devotion,

it's fine. they're fine. silverweiss can embrace each other in the ice castle bc they're fine in sub-zero temps, everyone else is dying and they're like "you put the stars in my sky / you are the campfire in my winter storm / i would murder millions for you". gag.
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[personal profile] mooninthewater 2023-12-29 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
bold of you to assume that SilverAsh isn't just immediately going to start arguing with Gnosis-
Edited 2023-12-29 22:35 (UTC)
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[personal profile] succiduous 2023-12-29 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
you're right. they kiss and embrace and everyone goes "ohhhhh" and meanwhile they immediately start yelling at each other about how "gnosis you nearly freeze me solid every night anyway" and gnosis is like what the fuck are you on about anyway you're the one who wanted [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] and suddenly the whole place is just like excaliburface.png

Re: SilverAsh | Arknights

[personal profile] amethystic 2023-12-30 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
gnosis loves him and as such fel will be less spicy with him at least. and also thoroughly enchanted with the baby snow leopard, she would... like to pet... please
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[personal profile] alligatus 2023-12-30 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
i want!! lancelot and silverash cr i feel like it will be fun in a lot of ways